Confrontation with reckless driver

darkmatter101

neilmcl wrote: »

Sorry, but that certainly isn't how you come across - I'd love to see you get away with a comment like that on BMW Land.

Sorry to blow your horn Neilmcl but most ACTIVE members of BMW Land tend to have 325i's and above, a lot have the 335i's. Also M3forum and M3cutters all tend to hold the same view as me.

BeenThroughItAll

darkmatter101 wrote: »

M3forum and M3cutters all tend to hold the same view as me.

Well they would, wouldn't they? They'll have the same self-important view of their own status as you have.

There's probably quite a number of 'moderatelypoweredfamilycar.com' forum members who share the same view that all M3 drivers are gigantic c0ck-gobbl3rs, but I'm sure you'd argue that just because they all share a view that doesn't make it right.

See the irony there?

lister

darkmatter101 wrote: »

I'm in no way suggesting I am superior to anyone else, that is absurd. I am implying that my vehicle (E92 BMW M3) is superior is most other vehicles on the road. There is no denying this. And I still strongly believe anyone in their Fords/Vauxhalls/Fiats or any car for that matter with a 2 liter or less engine (with exceptions to performance cars such as the Honda s2000) overtaking should be made ILLEGAL. Far too many times have I come across dangerous situations with people in their rubbish Ford Focus/Mondeo trying to overtake. If the road is clear for at least 3 miles ahead and it is straight then fair enough but for anything less, these people with their sub par cars should not be doing such things.

E92 M3 - car for losers and children. Real men drive these.

Hey look, I can get the wee above my head! Should have brought an umbrella though.

motorguy

darkmatter101 wrote: »

I'm in no way suggesting I am superior to anyone else, that is absurd. I am implying that my vehicle (E92 BMW M3) is superior is most other vehicles on the road. There is no denying this. And I still strongly believe anyone in their Fords/Vauxhalls/Fiats or any car for that matter with a 2 liter or less engine (with exceptions to performance cars such as the Honda s2000) overtaking should be made ILLEGAL. Far too many times have I come across dangerous situations with people in their rubbish Ford Focus/Mondeo trying to overtake. If the road is clear for at least 3 miles ahead and it is straight then fair enough but for anything less, these people with their sub par cars should not be doing such things.

I think its a fairly sad reflection on you that you think only people in large engined cars such as yours should be able to overtake, otherwise its dangerous.

No. Its not dangerous. Anyone with a modicum of ability should be able to overtake safely. To suggest that such a maneuvre relies solely on power, suggests perhaps you dont have that.

Idiophreak

darkmatter101 wrote: »

If the road is clear for at least 3 miles ahead and it is straight then fair enough but for anything less, these people with their sub par cars should not be doing such things.

Oh, get over yourself.

I drive a 1l Aygo and pass stuff safely every day.

To pass safely you just need a decent closing speed, which is just as achievable with a smaller engine...you just need a bit of a run up

force_ten

wow a thread about somebody losing the plot and shouting at a driver that cut him up has turned into a penis measuring competition for one jumped up self opinionated !!!!!!

it is not hard to work out why all BMW owners are classed as knobs when you read the posts from M3 man

BeenThroughItAll

force_ten wrote: »

... a penis microscopy session for one jumped up self opinionated !!!!!!

Fixed for you.

almillar

darkmatter101 - I think you might actually be insane. Ban cars under two litres from overtaking?
You clearly have one single idea of what an overtake is - you blasting past someone on a country road, and you think people in 'slow' cars shouldn't be allowed. There are umpteen different types of overtake, different roads, different vehicles to be overtaken, at different speeds.
The overtaker is responsible for carrying it out safely and to be on the wrong side of the road for as short a time as possible - I think that's what you're getting at.
Fact is, a 1 litre Aygo or VW Up! is perfectly capable of making safe overtakes all day, every day, with enough space or at the right speed. Your car will be capable of overtakes that those ones aren't, we know that, and some (me!) would even argue that this makes faster cars safer!
I think your problem isn't actually with the car, but the driver. You know the people who think the car will blow up if they go above 3000RPM? They're overtaking badly. If they actually used their 'slow' engine, I think you'd be surprised how quickly and safely they can overtake.
Ban the drivers, not the cars!

Mr_Mink

Idiophreak wrote: »

Oh, get over yourself.

I drive a 1l Aygo and pass stuff safely every day.

To pass safely you just need a decent closing speed, which is just as achievable with a smaller engine...you just need a bit of a run up

It's like that Top Gear episode where Jeremy states "at 70 miles per hour, the Daihatsu will easy overtake the Ascari doing 60 miles per hour"

Iceweasel

almillar wrote: »

You know the people who think the car will blow up if they go above 3000RPM? They're overtaking badly. If they actually used their 'slow' engine, I think you'd be surprised how quickly and safely they can overtake.
Ban the drivers, not the cars!

I agree completely - a discussion at work a while back revolved around the need to drop down a gear for most overtaking manoeuvres.

One person said that was one of the reasons that they didn't like automatic gearboxes - as they always changed down when he pulled out to overtake - the damn thing just wouldn't stay in top gear as he would have chosen on a manual box.

'Nuff said.